06.12.06
MacBook
It finally arrived today. Luckily I didn’t find out until right before I left work. Their estimate wasn’t until Wednesday or Thursday. Otherwise I would have been going nuts all day and gotten nothing done.
So far I can’t stop giggling. Everything about it is so damn neat. First off, I was able to one hand the box all the way down stairs. If I tried that with my Alienware I would be minus a hand. The laptop itself is very solidly built. First fun thing I noticed was the power cable. When I went to plug it in, as soon as I got near the plug-in point it sucked itself right in. Has a pretty tough magnet apparantly. That’s is a fantastic idea. The touch pad is funky though. Nice size, but just one big pad with one big button. 
Which shouldn’t surprise me, but neither should a one button mouse. But I’ll still stare at in awe for 10 minutes.
Next was getting it on the wireless network. This never goes as smoothly as it should. Especially with Linksys. Quickly read there was a bug in the Linksys products that make it hard for a Mac to connect via WEP. Changed to another mode and it is working just fine.
Going through the usual setup screens with it’s very pretty Cube roll over effects. Oh and now the iSight found me. Wants to take a picture of me for my account avatar.
Egad! No Home key. Home and End are shared with Left and Right arrow keys. Anyhoo, going to spend the evening playing and getting my usual software going. First thing is online chat with iChat.